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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi, UAE by ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTSJune 5th, 2012 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS Design and construction of a third gateway crossing linking Abu Dhabi Island to the Gulf south shore. Our two-way four lane highway bridge features cantilevered road decks suspended from symmetrical steel arches, which form a sinusoidal waveform – giving this huge structure its fluid silhouette.  Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
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 Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS Over several decades, the UAE, an increasingly mobile society, has undertaken ambitious infrastructure projects to create a high-speed highway network connecting the three Emirates together. As far back as 1967, a steel arch bridge was constructed to connect the then fledgling city of Abu Dhabi Island to the mainland, with a second bridge completed during the 1970s.  Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS The Sheikh Zayed Bridge, carrying a two-way four lane highway provides a vital third Gateway crossing, connecting to the expanding highway system on the Gulf south shore. A massive structure, rising 60m above water-level at its highest point, the bridge’s fluid silhouette makes it a destination point in its own right. It is also intended to serve as a catalyst for future urban growth in Abu Dhabi.  Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS It rises from the mainland against an open panorama, gathering ground level road structures together, then lifting and propelling them across the channel on cantilevered road decks which run either side of the bridge’s spine structure. Asymmetrical steel arches rise and spring from mass concrete piers to form a coherent sinusoidal waveform, which splays and splits from one shore along the central void, before diverging beneath the road decks on reaching the other.  Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS  Image Courtesy ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS  Drawing
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